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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.

Thomas Sowell

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Alternative Choose Failure Hate People Success
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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